leland vittert is live in our middle east bureau in jerusalem with that update. leland? >> reporter: hi, jon. the syrian rebels head really hoped that the town of aleppo was going to become their new base of operations where they could resupply from, where they could regroup from, provide medical care to wounded soldiers. day by day, though, the rebels seem to be getting less and less good news. the syrian goth seems to be winning more and more. in fact, just today the syrian government took control of a major neighborhood there in aleppo. the latest amateur video coming out of the embattled city does show us this is turning into an insurgency war meaning the rebels are fighting with ak-47s and mortar rounds. on the other side, though, you have the syrian army with entire battalions of tanks, heavy artillery, helicopter gunships and fighter aircraft to take on these rebels. it has been compared to a very tragic war of whack-a-mole, remember the old game where the insurgents would pop up in one area as they are doing in aleppo, the government comes in, whacks them down on